a. [f. TRAFFIC sb. or v. + -ABLE.]

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  † 1.  Adapted or suitable for traffic or trading. Obs. rare–1.

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a. 1603.  T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 469. That being the most traffiqueable and Marchandable Citie of all Asia.

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  2.  That may be bought or sold; marketable.

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1649.  Bp. Hall, Cases Consc., i. (1654), 4. It is … in some cases a trafiqueable commodity.

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1880.  A. Somerville, Autobiog., 90. I required what may be called trafficable material.

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1889.  Sat. Rev., 19 Oct., 422/1. [They] have been taught … to regard a vote as a commodity, traffickable.

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  3.  Fit or suitable for passage to and fro.

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1890.  Goldfields of Victoria, 17. A good trafficable roadway.

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1891.  Illustr. Lond. News, 17 Jan., 78/2. The streets are trafficable.

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  Hence Trafficability, Trafficableness, suitability for traffic or passage to and fro.

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1899.  Daily News, 16 Nov., 4/5. A paper dealing with … London’s treacherous ‘trafficability’ was read at the opening meeting of the 146th session of the Society of Arts.

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